Even in the largest cities in the Northwest, there’s the sweep of air, land, sky and water. Like Duccio with a rock in his studio to serve as model for a mountain, Leo Saul Berk uses a wide variety of new media to signify his surroundings. …

Taking everything into account – wars, torture and famines; economic crashes and environmental degradation; threats to homes, museums and galleries as well as the probable demise of the print version of newspapers, most recently, my own – the last isn’t even a blip on the screen. …